. Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894
- 1978) was a 20th-century American painter
and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular
appeal in the

United States for their reflection
of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for
the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created
for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more
than four decades.

Since I'm starting to get Norman
Rockwell paintings on my site, one location needs
to list all of them...

.............. Dwayne Booth, aka Mr.Fish, insists
"I am not a cartoonist." Booth offers a vibrant example
of political cartooning as it is practiced at its height.
He may modestly argue that this is not saying much - but
then he has been, by his own account, in love and at war
with the notion of "genius" since his teens.

Mr. Fish has been a freelance
writer and cartoonist for 18 years. He has publishing
with many of the nation's most reputable and prestigious magazines,
journals, and papers. When Dwayne puts pen to paper
the drawings are exquisite, and each one elisits a strong
emotion from the viewer.

When I saw "A Real Democracy",
I remembered the America of my childhood, and wanted to
cry when I thought of our splintered, land. The poor verses
the rich, the left veses the right, the disappearance of the middle
class, and the politicians who put party before country,
all fill our United States.

This web page is so amazingly
wonderful. Your mouse controls the directions. You can
enlarge/shrink the image using the controls on the bottom left
of the screen. If your mouse has a mouse wheel, it can be done
that way, too. Click 'HERE'
to get a private, 360 degree tour
of the Sistine Chapel.

The source is a larger, better
image, and the music is awesome. The source
and my copy both downloads a 3.0 MB MP3 file to your computer.

Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates
the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds
from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures
are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their
own. Theo Jansen's "Strandbeests" walk the coastline
of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water.
Click 'HERE' to
see this 2007
TED video from Monterey, California.

TED
collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory
on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things,
far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder,"
are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary
origins. Click 'HERE' to see this fascinating video.

Digital
Buzz has created a 3D projection mapping a historic building in Amsterdam.
The projection realistically cracks the building in half, sending
debris shattering down before it fills up with water and then
drains into a rain forest revealing the new Samsung 3D
LED TV! This certainly has to be the best 3D experience I've
seen from Projection mapping! Click 'HERE'
to see this awesome, amazing video.

This is a 10 min "Short Film"
on the iconic Christchurch artist, Peter Donnelly, who
has etched and raked over 700 works into the New Brighton
sands. Click 'HERE' to see this amazing artist who is called
"The Sand Man."

A painter by the name of Ole
Svenson, while not a brilliant scholar, was a gifted portrait
artist. Over a short number of years, his fame grew and
soon people from all over Minnesota were coming to him
in the town of Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, to get him
to paint their likenesses.

One day, a beautiful young
woman arrived at his house in a stretch limo and asked Ole if
he would paint her in the nude.

This being the first time anyone
had made such a request, Ole was a bit perturbed, particularly
when the woman told him that money was no object;
in fact, she was willing to pay up to $10,000.

Not wanting to get into any marital
strife, Ole asked her to wait while he went into the
house to confer with Lena, his wife.

In a few minutes he returned.
"would be my pleasure to paint yer portrait, missus," he said
"The wife says it's okay, you bet."

"I'll paint ya in da nude alright
. but I got to at least leave my socks on so I has a
place to wipe my brushes, don' ya know.".....................

This PowerPoint Show is a series
of Van Gogh painting shown while the song "Starry,
Starry Night" by Don Mclean plays. The pictures are
times to match the song. Click'HERE'
to see a PPS which is too lovely for words.

. I can't believe how much work
has gone into this painting. The painting itself is great
but as you run your curser over the people it tells you
who they are and provides a link (if you double click) to
get more information on each person. This could keep you
occupied for hours.

Willard Wigan is now emerging
as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time.
He can turn a speck of dust into a vision of true beauty.
You can see a video about his creations by clicking 'HERE'.

I have a web page full of his
creations on my site which you can see by clicking 'HERE'.

Doug Landis makes art using the
pencil, not with his hands, but with his mouth. Doug
was paralyzed from the neck down during his high school wrestling
match. Click 'HERE'
to learn more about Doug and his
art.

The Mona Lisa, one of the world's
most famous paintings, has been recreated with 3,604
cups of coffee - and 564 pints of milk at the Aroma Festival
at The Rocks in Sydney, Australia. Click 'HERE'
to read the story, see the pictures, and see a stop-motion video
of its construction.

Source: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/.........picture-of-the-day-pixel-people-perfection/ In this awesome artwork by Craig
Alan, people are the pixels in this tribute to the
iconic portrait of Audrey Hepburn. Why do the red lips
cast red shadows? Probably because staying true and having
black shadows would ruin the famous red lips. This
work was featured at the International Art Expo in New
York as a 48by60 print on canvas. Click 'HERE'
to see this interesting print.

in Funny Animal Pictures Source: http://www.animaltalk.us/cottonwood-trees/ I was told that all the old
cottonwood trees in the area of Craig, Colorado, had some disease
and needed to be removed. So the way to do this was to
have a chainsaw competition in the park and offer a prize.
The attached pictures are a result of the competition in
the park. Great artists! Click 'HERE'
to see the results.

Click 'HERE'
to see model cars made from beer and coke cans. Click on the Source to see aluminum
cans made into models of airplanes, cars, trucks, locomotives,
farm equipment, construction equipment, ships,
motorcycles, insects, and sharks.

Paul was born in Philadelphia on
September 21, 1921. Although severe cerebral palsy
kept him out of school, it didn't prevent him from having
a remarkable life. Paul taught himself to become
a master artist as well as a terrific chess player.

When typing, Paul used his left
hand to steady his right one. Since he couldn't
press two keys at the same time, he almost always locked the
shift key down and made his pictures using the symbols at
the top of the number keys.

In other words, his pictures
were based on these characters @ #
$ % ^
? * (
) _

You can see this artist's amazing
work and read about his life by clicking 'HERE'.

When the dust gets thick on the
back window of his Mini Cooper, Scott Wade uses
it as a canvas to create temporary works of art. You
can read his story and view some of his art work by
clicking 'HERE'.